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# pestilent

adjective (old use)

«pestilent» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Causing disease or illness, carrying plague. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#m1)
2. Very annoying or troublesome. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#m2)

### In the lessons

in old tales a pestilent king or wind is an evil nuisance

### Examples

- The pestilent air made the people sick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#x1)
- That pestilent fly kept buzzing round my head. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pestilent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pestilent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pestilent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pestilent.html) on Mova free.